Re: [Closed REQ 5525]: Geomview's internal image.

["Tim Rowley" <trowley>]

> I am using X - Geomview on a DEC-alpha with an 8-bit screen, and I would
> like to obtain a 24 bit dump of the image. I have the source, and I am
> a competent C/C++ programmer, so could you tell me if/where geomview
> constructs the 24 bit image before fitting it to the 8-bit colourmap?

When you use an 8 bit display, Geomview never has a 24 bit
version of the image around -- it dithers on the fly.  The next
version of Geomview will have an GCL save command to save a 24
bit image.


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